Brandewyne, Rebecca
“From there, the vessels struck out across the Skagerrak, toward its northwestern shores; and presently, the end of their long journey was in sight. Like the rest of the women, Rhowenna stood upon the deck of the Dragon's Fire, silenced and daunted by the vast, craggy, heavily forested mountains that hove up in shades of dark green, blue, and purple in the distance ahead, their snowcapped peaks piercing the clouds, cutting a jagged oblique into the robin's-egg blue of the sky, where hundreds of ...seabirds soared and cried hauntingly along the coast.
The mountains of Walas had been but hills compared to these huge, towering alps, whose steep, rocky sides fell away sharply into deep, narrow valleys through which white-watered rivers ran, and shallower, wider expanses of marsh and heath, where the morning mist still clung to the low-lying hollows of the land and swans and ducks called, floating upon still, reed-grown meres.
The sea was so clear and so pristine and dazzling a blue that the glare of the sunlight reflecting off the waves hurt Rhowenna's eyes, and she held one hand to her brow to shade them.MoreLess
The mountains of Walas had been but hills compared to these huge, towering alps, whose steep, rocky sides fell away sharply into deep, narrow valleys through which white-watered rivers ran, and shallower, wider expanses of marsh and heath, where the morning mist still clung to the low-lying hollows of the land and swans and ducks called, floating upon still, reed-grown meres.
The sea was so clear and so pristine and dazzling a blue that the glare of the sunlight reflecting off the waves hurt Rhowenna's eyes, and she held one hand to her brow to shade them.MoreLess
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